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The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.

The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.

All Saints' Day, November 1st. [Archaic]

The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st.

Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line.

The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.

One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery. Council of Ancients (French Hist.), one of the two assemblies composing the legislative bodies in 1795. Brande.

A member of the Church of England. Whether Catholics, Anglicans, or Calvinists. Burke.

A member of the Church of England who contends for its catholic character; more specifically, a High Churchman.

son; an annual plant. Oaths . . . in some sense almost annuals; . . . and I myself can remember about forty different sets. Swift.

and the place answer to convenience. Shak. If this but answer to my just belief, I 'll remember you. Shak. As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. Pro

An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.

A member of one of certain ascetic sects which at various times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles.

thou wit be to ask. Beau. & Fl. That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers. F. Harrison.

Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.

The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening, especially if square in form.

The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.

A member of the Areopagus. Acts xvii. 34.

One of the individual members of a compound ascidian. See Ascidioidea.